Europe
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Peter Padfield [Peter Padfield]

Eventually a compromise was achieved whereby Clauberg was given facilities within the new camp at Auschwitz–Birkenau, closer to his clinic than Ravensbrück was, where he experimented on young married Jewesses ...
( Category: Germany January 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Philip Matyszak & Lindsay Powell [Matyszak, Philip and Powell, Lindsay]

certainly, there were found hidden in the floor and in the walls disinterred remains of human bodies, incantations and spells, and the name of Germanicus inscribed on leaden tablets, half-burnt ...
( Category: Rome January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

17 Death The dowager Countess of Shrewsbury enjoyed Edward IV’s generosity for less than two years, for she died on Sunday 14 June 1467, at the age of 63, and ...
( Category: Great Britain January 20,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1992-10-19 | Author:David P. Chandler [Chandler, David P.]

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Nathan Prefer [Prefer, Nathan]

That attack came the next morning after an intense artillery and mortar barrage. Communications between Sergeant Bell and the rest of Company I were disrupted by the intense shellfire, and ...
( Category: Germany January 13,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Roberts, Jennifer T. [Roberts, Jennifer T.]

Inevitably, Herodotus was somewhat prone to falling into generalization. It was easy for him to seize on individual details he had observed and extrapolate wildly. One can see him in ...
( Category: Greece January 10,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Eliza Merrett knew very little of books—indeed, she was barely literate. But when she saw how keenly Doctor Minor collected and cherished his old volumes, and when she listened to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Russell Braddon [Russell Braddon]

CHAPTER XIII OLD ENEMIES AND NEW FRIENDS DENIS had had terrible difficulty catching up with Nancy and Hubert. ‘My dear, swarms of Germans chasing me everywhere,’ he vowed. Now that ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Richard Toye [Toye, Richard]

IV Menzies was no lone critic, however. The war was not going well and Churchill had to work constantly to maintain his position in Parliament. The German invasion of the ...
( Category: Great Britain January 6,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Linda Himelstein

They [the Smirnovs] will terrorize you because of me! They will torment you! They are animals, monsters!…Your father, though he gave you both education and good breeding, he still remains ...
( Category: Russia January 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Nicholas Phillipson [Phillipson, Nicholas]

The civil Law is digested into a more regular System than the English Law has yet been, and tho’ the Principles of the former are in many respects different from ...
( Category: Great Britain December 23,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Wyllie, James [Wyllie, James]

The run in to the Anschluss began in February 1938 with a meeting between Hitler and Schuschnigg, during which the Führer, flanked by his generals, subjected the Austrian chancellor to ...
( Category: Fascism December 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:Churchill; The Unexpected Hero

SIX The Making of a Hero, 1939–1945 On 15 March 1939 German troops marched into Prague and the Czechoslovak state ceased to exist. The moral case for the Munich agreement––that ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-13 | Author:Paul Addison

So long frustrated, the two great ambitions of Churchill’s youth–to be a military hero and a hero of democracy––had come together in a blaze of glory in his sixty–sixth year. ...
( Category: Great Britain December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Joel F. Harrington

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveler by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...
( Category: Germany December 18,2015 )